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My electronic dictionary is a steaming pile of crap because the publishers won't get their act together and hyperlink the data. It's just a digital version of a half dozen dictionaries, each one blind to the other. So if you read a word in the Japanese-Japanese definition you don't understand you cannot click on it to look it up in the Japanese-English entries for example, or find the hiragana reading. Total pain in the ass.

I'd pay money for something decent on my netbook.

Unfortunately little banananote here doesn't look to be much of an answer to anything.]]>Mar 15th 2010 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Maybe you bought it from the wrong company? I reckon Sharp and Casio make some pretty good devices, albeit a little expensive. You can expand your dictionaries and e-books collection, although I'm not sure if the hyperlinking will still work with those.]]>Mar 15th 2010 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Double the Ram and it would feel like haveing your first laptop 15 years ago, heck it would run windows 95 or 3.1

Ahhh feeling nostalgic already]]>Mar 15th 2010 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
15 years ago you'd have a toshiba libretto and be now wondering WTF with the "new" netbook fanboi set. Toshiba beat the Eee by yup nearly 15 years]]>Mar 15th 2010 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
This looks like Qi is asking for a reason to file Chapter 11.]]>Mar 15th 2010 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
And the thing doesn't even pack wifi. Fail.]]>Mar 15th 2010 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
The guys that know what they're taking about should be voted up.]]>Mar 15th 2010 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
Yeah and the cherrypal africa has wifi, more ram, more cpu speed.

You can polish a turd, but in the end it's still a turd. ]]>Mar 15th 2010 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/And it's Copyleft, meaning everything is open.]]>Mar 15th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
droid already does. like you don't want a smartphone already if you don't have one. pointless device.]]>Mar 15th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
Wait, I mash all the programs in through a console? Wait, Wifi is $29 extra? Wait, my phone does all of these things already? I understand now, it's a box for hobbyist coders. I wish I had one of these growing up. But now I can buy a netbook for under $200.

I wish these guys luck.]]>Mar 15th 2010 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
right. I'm utterly confused at this. they made a glaring mistake by not reducing the bezel to provide for a larger screen]]>Mar 15th 2010 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 3:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/and due it's almost compatible with Dingo A320 console, a lots of ports are on their way.
you can check some videos on Doom and some apps running on Ben
here
http://www.tuxbrain.com/en/content/doom-y-quake-en-ben-nanonote-videos
and with sound at the end of post here
http://www.tuxbrain.com/en/content/fosdem2010-desde-dentro-en-un-rinc%C3%B3n
Just a qick reply to our detractors, Copyleft Hardaware and Qi Hardware project is to Hardware as GPL and GNU/Linux is to Software, is about freedom not high lastest feature commitment.
Ben in chinese means , start point so that's what Ben Nanonote is.
GNU/Linux started as console OS totally hacker oriented and in, but the freedom has make it grow to what we know today, we are trying to follow similar path but solving the difference between hardware and software.
]]>Mar 15th 2010 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
That's not a bezel.

(points to benAnonote)

Not THAT'S a bezel!]]>Mar 15th 2010 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/or 笨 if you don't put the tone in.]]>Mar 15th 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
Some of the developers involved with Dingux Linux are also very interested in this unit, so there might be some impressive stuff emerging for this platform soon.

]]>Mar 15th 2010 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/
I'm gonna get one of these to use as practice for my programming classes. Maybe I can convince the instructor to buy 9 more.
I wont let you know how that goes, mmmmkay.]]>Mar 15th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Looks cooler for sure.]]>Mar 15th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/Mar 15th 2010 2:03PM